Der Freischütz

Team

Conductor

Mario Hartmuth

Director

Ersan Mondtag

Stage design

Nina Peller

Costumes

Teresa Vergho

Lighting design

Rainer Casper

Dramaturgy

Till Briegleb

Musical Assistant

Peter Schedding

Chorus

Marco Zeiser Celesti

With

Mirko Roschkowski, Margarethe Fredheim, Filippo Bettoschi, Emma McNairy, Jonathan Stolze, Sam Taskinen, Ilyeol Park, Magnus Piontek, Staatsorchester Kassel, Opernchor des Staatstheaters Kassel

At its premiere in 1821, “Der Freischütz” was greeted with frenzy as the first German national opera.

Good and evil are clearly defined here, as are honor and dishonor; The men are complete men with weapons in their hands, the women are naive females with intuitions. The good, pious rural society stands in contrast to the irrational, unleashed nature of the Wolfsschlucht, which has its origins in the horror fairy tales of the time it was created. Ersan Mondtag returns to Kassel for this production and transforms the mysterious fairy tale about the hunter Max and the cursed free balls into a contemporary drama about fear, dreams and the uncanny.

Photo credit: Birgit Hupfeld

Time

13. February 2022 – 13. February 2023